Biggest textile processing cluster coming up in TN

With Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board issuing notices to the scattered textile processing unit for polluting groundwater in the process of bleaching and dyeing due to which they are facing closure. Madurai District Tiny and Small Scale Industries Association (MADITSSIA) is going to facilitate a textile processing cluster near Kariyapatti in Virudhunagar district.

It will be the biggest cluster in Tamil Nadu at a cost of Rs. 250 crore.

Southern districts textile processing cluster private limited, promoted by around 400 family-run textile manufacturers of Madurai, Sivaganga and Virudhunagar, will have 36 state-of-the art bleaching and dyeing units, at Pottakulam and Thamaraikulam villages, off Kariyapatti.

According to MADITSSIA panel chairman for cluster development KR. Gnanasambandan that the scattered units which are facing closures need to move out and adopt better technology to run the show.

The State and the Centre have also given the in-principle consent for the park under the Integrated Processing Development Scheme of the Union Ministry of Textiles.

The special purpose vehicle formed for setting up the private industrial park, has bought 100 acres of land.

MADITSSIA established in 1974 caters to the needs of the District wide Tiny & Small Scale Industries. It arranges buyer seller interface through exhibitions and fairs, and also by effective liaisoning among industrial associations, industrial houses and goverment departments and agencies.

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